RE: The religious problem with evolution
November 12, 2013 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2013 at 12:30 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 12, 2013 at 11:45 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: It is inevitable that any challenge to a fundamentalist's views on religion, somehow move into a conversation about evolution (an attempt at an attack by the theist specifically). I always find this quite curious that this seems to be a constant. I have numerous questions about this.
1) Why not attack other scientific theories, like relativity or gravity or plate tectonics?
Who said they don't? Plenty of christians cling to the earth-centered universe for biblical reasons - which implicitly denied newtonians mechanics, much less relativity. Better yet, there are even biblically principled flat earthers, on whose dinner plate of an earth any plate tectonics would truely be hard pressed.
(November 12, 2013 at 11:45 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: 2) Do theists think evolution is somehow weaker??
No, evolution strikes even closer than others to the very core of the overreaching, posturing, bullshit nature of their religion.
(November 12, 2013 at 11:45 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: 3) Is it more strongly related to the fact that loud-mouth fundamentalists have been doing it since Darwin, so they just keep going???
See 2. Also facts must be asserted to be fiction for fiction pretending to be facts to have any shot at any success.
(November 12, 2013 at 11:45 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: 4) How does it logically follow that if evolution is false, that religion must be true????Religion is never about proving itself true, for it is not and therefore can't be. If it really tried religion would have died by now. Religion has always been and probably always will be 100%l about expedient rhetorics to sucker the simpletons and emotional infants.
(November 12, 2013 at 11:45 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: 5) How would one disprove evolution? (with science or religion?)
There are many ways. Some example:
Show by weight of evidence that plausible evolutionary descendant is likely to be found in earlier strata than plausible evolutionary ancestor.
Show by weight of molecular evidence morphologically similar species tend to biochemically or genetic as or more different as morphologically dissimilar species.
Etc, etc.
Evolution is extremely easy to disprove if were substantially or simply untrue. The fact that such an seemingly easy task can not be done even with such sustained and focused effort by the best minds strongly argues that even if evolution were not essentially all true, it must be untrue in such a subtle and complex way that it also precludes such alternatives as christian simpletons could possibly encompass with their added minds.